After a thorough investigation, the Dubai police have discovered that rape is bad for tourism.
A British woman who was jailed in Dubai and charged with having sex outside marriage after claiming that she had been raped while on holiday in the Gulf state has seen both charges dropped.
The charge of illegal sex against the 23-year-old woman and her partner, 44, was dropped by the Dubai public prosecutor after the couple produced a marriage certificate showing they had been married since November.
The woman originally claimed that she had been raped in the lavatories of a luxury Dubai hotel on New Year’s Eve after drinking heavily.
….The charge of rape against an Indian worker at the hotel has also been dropped after police found no evidence to back up the woman’s claim that he had followed her into the lavatories and attacked her while she was semi-conscious.
A statement released by Dubai authorities said that the public prosecution had closed the case against the Indian man “as the incident didn’t happen”.
The couple went to police on January 1 to report the attack but were arrested and jailed after the woman admitted under questioning that they had been sharing a hotel room and been drunk at the Address Hotel in the Dubai Marina district.